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Leadership Discourse at Work: Interactions of Humour, Gender and Workplace Culture

Leadership Discourse at Work: Interactions of Humour,...

Author: S. Schnurr
ISBN: 9780230201804
Format: Hardback
$126.00

Employing a discourse analytical approach this book focuses on the under-researched strategy of humour to illustrate...  Read More >>

Content Analysis

Content Analysis

Author: Hansen Anders
ISBN: 9780335204410
Format: Hardback
$194.96

How has the increasing availability of electronic text dramatically enhanced the scope for powerful applications...  Read More >>

The Rhetoric of Rhetoric: The Quest for Effective Communication

The Rhetoric of Rhetoric: The Quest for Effective Communication...

Author: Wayne C Booth
ISBN: 9786611069049
Format: Electronic book text
$168.70

The Rhetoric of Rhetoric is a manifesto addressed to a broad audience, dramatizing the importance of rhetorical...  Read More >>

Dislocated Elements in Discourse: Syntactic, Semantic, and Pragmatic Perspectives

Dislocated Elements in Discourse: Syntactic, Semantic,...

Author: Benjamin Shaer ,  Philippa Cook
ISBN: 9780415395984
Format: Hardback
$210.00

"Deals with ""dislocation"" - the removal of phrases from their canonical positions in a sentence to its left or...  Read More >>

School Discourse: Learning to Write Across the Years of Schooling

School Discourse: Learning to Write Across the Years...

Author: Frances Christie (<p>University of Melbourne, Australia) ,  Beverly Derewianka
ISBN: 9781441132208
Format: Electronic book text
$396.00

Writing development has been a key area of research in applied linguistics. Using a systemic functional grammar,...  Read More >>

The Subjunctive in the Age of Prescriptivism: English and German Developments During the Eighteenth Century

The Subjunctive in the Age of Prescriptivism: English...

Author: A. Auer ,  Kenneth A. Loparo
ISBN: 9781349365258
Format: Paperback
$84.99

This monograph focuses on the description, use and development of the inflectional subjunctive in English and German...  Read More >>

Discourse and Transformation in Central and Eastern Europe

Discourse and Transformation in Central and Eastern...

Author: A. Galasinska ,  M. Krzyzanowski
ISBN: 9780230521025
Format: Hardback
$154.00

This volume explores the discursive nature of post-1989 social change in Central and Eastern Europe. Through a set...  Read More >>

Humorous Garden-Paths: A Pragmatic-Cognitive Study

Humorous Garden-Paths: A Pragmatic-Cognitive Study

Author: Marta Dynel
ISBN: 9781443801409
Format: Hardback
$116.41

Surprising as it may seem, sometimes humans like being led up the garden path, which is thanks to the pleasurable...  Read More >>

The Incompleat Eco-Philosopher: Essays from the Edges of Environmental Ethics

The Incompleat Eco-Philosopher: Essays from the Edges...

Author: Anthony Weston
ISBN: 9780791476703
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Features a collection of essays that present Weston's pragmatic environmental philosophy, calling for reconstruction...  Read More >>

Style Shifting in Japanese

Style Shifting in Japanese

Author: Kimberly Jones (University of Arizona) ,  Tsuyoshi Ono (University of Alberta)
ISBN: 9789027254252
Format: Hardback
$393.36

"This innovative and interdisciplinary book on style shifting in Japanese brings together a wide range of perspectives...  Read More >>

Controversy and Confrontation: Relating controversy analysis with argumentation theory

Controversy and Confrontation: Relating controversy...

Author: Frans H. van Eemeren (University of Amsterdam) ,  Bart Garssen (University of Amsterdam)
ISBN: 9789027218865
Format: Hardback
$227.70

The essays that are collected in Controversy and Confrontation provide a closer insight into the relationship between...  Read More >>

The Advanced Learner Variety: The Case of French

The Advanced Learner Variety: The Case of French

Author: Emmannuelle Labeau ,  Florence Myles
ISBN: 9783039110728
Format: Paperback
$200.51

This volume originates from a workshop entitled 'Revisiting advanced varieties in L2 learning' organized by the...  Read More >>

The Hand of the Interpreter: Essays on Meaning after Theory

The Hand of the Interpreter: Essays on Meaning after...

Author: Eric Jarosinski ,  G. F. Mitrano
ISBN: 9783039111183
Format: Paperback
$194.19

This collection of essays by scholars and artists of different disciplines and from different countries is designed...  Read More >>

The Incompleat Eco-Philosopher: Essays from the Edges of Environmental Ethics

The Incompleat Eco-Philosopher: Essays from the Edges...

Author: Anthony Weston
ISBN: 9780791476697
Format: Hardback
$172.92

Features a collection of essays that present Weston's pragmatic environmental philosophy, calling for reconstruction...  Read More >>

Writing with Sources: A Guide for Students

Writing with Sources: A Guide for Students

Author: Gordon Harvey
ISBN: 9780872209459
Format: Hardback
$52.67

Developed for Harvard University's Expository Writing Program, Writing with Sources  Read More >>

Writing Outside Your Comfort Zone: Helping Students Navigate Unfamiliar Genres

Writing Outside Your Comfort Zone: Helping Students...

Author: Cathy Fleischer ,  Sarah Andrew-Vaughan
ISBN: 9780325012476
Format: Paperback
$66.00

2010 James N. Britton Award winner from the Conference on English Education (CEE) of the National Council of Teachers...  Read More >>

Internationalising the University: The Chinese Context

Internationalising the University: The Chinese Context...

Author: T. Coverdale-Jones ,  P. Rastall
ISBN: 9780230203518
Format: Hardback
$154.00

The contributors to Internationalising the University: the Chinese Context offer an in-depth understanding of the...  Read More >>

Postmodifying Attributive Adjectives in English: An Integrated Corpus-Based Approach

Postmodifying Attributive Adjectives in English: An...

Author: Lars M. Blöhdorn ,  Thomas Kohnen
ISBN: 9783631583876
Format: Paperback
$132.74

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Naturalness and Iconicity in Language

Naturalness and Iconicity in Language

Author: Klaas Willems (Ghent University) ,  Ludovic De Cuypere (Ghent University)
ISBN: 9789027243430
Format: Hardback
$227.70

Iconicity and naturalness remain controversial concepts in recent linguistic research. The present volume aims to...  Read More >>

Writing to Communicate 3: Essays and the Short Research Paper

Writing to Communicate 3: Essays and the Short Research...

Author: CYNTHIA BOARDMAN ,  Gro Frydenberg
ISBN: 9780132407441
Format: Paperback
$51.95

With a combined process and product approach, Writing to Communicate puts students on a fast track to clear and...  Read More >>

Structures and Strategies

Structures and Strategies

Author: Adriana Belletti
ISBN: 9780415962018
Format: Hardback
$213.00

Following crucial insights on the functional structure of the clause and recent developments within the cartographic...  Read More >>

Evaluation and Stance in War News: A Linguistic Analysis of American, British and Italian television news reporting of the 2003 Iraqi war

Evaluation and Stance in War News: A Linguistic Analysis...

Author: Louann Haarman ,  Professor Linda Lombardo
ISBN: 9781847061768
Format: Hardback
$224.00

Using the 2003 war in Iraq as an illustrative tool for highlighting the impact which advances in communication systems...  Read More >>

Sophocle Lecteur de Freud

Sophocle Lecteur de Freud

Author: André Sauge
ISBN: 9783039114245
Format: Paperback
$149.30

La pièce de Sophocle, OEdipe roi, expose-t-elle la grandeur intellectuelle de l'homme découvrant la misère de son...  Read More >>

Investition und Finanzierung: Konzeptionelle Grundlagen für eine entscheidungsorientierte Ausbildung

Investition und Finanzierung: Konzeptionelle Grundlagen...

Author: Thomas Braun
ISBN: 9783540783664
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Das Lehrbuch begegnet der Forderung nach einer praxisorientierten Ausbildung auf mehreren Wegen: 1. Das Buch ist...  Read More >>

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